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Chris Brown interviews Neeta Madahar on a return visit to Boston, where she studied for three years at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts.
Chris Brown After reading the article published in a-n Magazine, August 2000 about your plans to continue your studies in the USA, I thought it would make sense to re-visit those last five years. A good place to start would be your practice then... Neeta Madahar I see myself as an interdisciplinary artist. I started my studies at Winchester School of Art as a painter. I also experimented with installation, and by the final year my ideas seemed to work in video more than any other medium, which the painting department supported. From that I knew I wanted to continue on an MFA course that had the same open attitude. I also knew I didn’t want to apply to courses just in the UK, but also in the USA. CB Where did the awareness come from that you weren’t going to restrict yourself to studying in the UK? NM It was thinking what would have a long-term influence on my practice. I was a mature student and I’d already had a life before I came to Winchester. I felt that I was making big changes in my life and sacrificing a lot to come to art school. I had to consider what kind of practice and experiences I wanted as an artist. I studied in Barcelona for three months on the...
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